Zikade
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Meine Erfahrungen:
Ich kenne ein Mädchen, schlank, nur interessiert an Süßigkeiten
und handy, isst wenig, steht immer im Mittelpunkt und genießt das, ist
intelligent.
Sie ist immer in Bewegung.
Der unten erwähnte Mythos erinnert mich am Magersucht. Das
Mädchen ist auf dem beste Wege magersüchtig zu werden.
Darum bestelle ich Philaenus
spumarius (= Wiesenschaumzikade) in C 30 Quelle: Remedia.at
Auchenorrhyncha (= meadow froghopper/= meadow spittlebug)
Cixidia lapponica (= Kleiner Käfer, große Wirkung: Der nur wenige Millimeter große seltene Goldfüßige Schnellkäfer oder Deutschlands einzige Totholz-Zikade)
Philaenus spumarius (= Wiesenschaumzikade/= Kuckucksspucke/= Kuckucksspeichel/= Hexenspucke)
Vergleich: Siehe: Insecta
Zikaden liebevoll der „sound of summer“ genannt.
Ameisen werden in der Bibel wegen ihres Fleißes erwähnt. Schon in früher Zeit glaubte man auch an ihre Fähigkeit, Witterung und Hungersnöte voraussagen zu können.
Antike: Gicht, Rheuma, Hautkrankheiten und als Abortivmittel verwendet.
Die auffallende Emsigkeit der Tiere erinnert an die ununterbrochene Sangeslust der Zikaden. Von deren Entstehung kündet ein in Platos »Phaidron« überlieferter Mythos,
den Sokrates seinem jungen Freund Phaidros erzählt:
Vor langer Zeit hätten Menschen gelebt, die keinerlei Kenntnis von Musik und Gesang hatten, aber nach der Geburt der Musen zu deren Propheten wurden: Von Sangeslust überwältigt, vergaßen sie über dem Singen, Nahrung zu sich zu nehmen, und endeten so ihr Leben, ohne es zu bemerken. So entstand das Geschlecht der Zikaden, die von
den Musen damit beschenkt wurden, keinerlei Nahrung zu bedürfen und gleich nach der Geburt bis zum Lebensende ununterbrochen singen zu können.
Dieser mythologischen Erklärung über die Entstehung der Zikaden entspricht eine Sage über die Ameisen, die ebenfalls auf die -hier allerdings völlig anders intendierte- Neigung des Menschen verweist, sich entsprechenden Gegebenheiten ganz und gar hin- und dabei aufzugeben.
Als nach den Musenkindern die Arbeit in die Welt kam, wurden manche Menschen von so großer Arbeitslust gepackt und berauscht, dass sie vergaßen, sich zu ernähren
und schließlich völlig ausgezehrt starben. Aus diesen griechischen »ergobakcheuontes«, in unserer Zeit »workaholic« genannten Menschen ging das Geschlecht der Ameisen hervor, das die Musen damit beschenkten, ohne den Genuss jeglicher Künste unaufhörlich arbeiten zu können. Die beschriebenen, wahrheitsweisenden Mythen erlauben eine Zuordnung menschlicher Gruppierungen:
In dem weiten Spektrum zwischen zikadenseligen Grillen, den »Musaholics«, die »Grillen im Kopf« haben, und den amusischen (griech. amusoi), ameisenfleißigen »Worcaholics« finden sich die Menschen, die weder Zikaden noch Ameisen geworden sind.
Von deren Entstehung kündet ein in Platos »Phaidron« überlieferter Mythos, den Sokrates bei einem Spaziergang seinem jungen Freund Phaidros erzählt. Vor langer Zeit hätten Menschen gelebt, die keinerlei Kenntnis von Musik und Gesang hatten, aber nach der Geburt der Musen zu deren Propheten wurden: Von Sangeslust überwältigt, vergaßen sie über dem Singen, Nahrung zu sich zu nehmen, und endeten so ihr Leben, ohne es zu bemerken. So entstand das Geschlecht der Zikaden, die von den Musen damit beschenkt wurden, keinerlei Nahrung zu bedürfen und gleich nach der Geburt bis zum Lebensende ununterbrochen singen zu können. Dieser mythologischen
Erklärung über die Entstehung der Zikaden entspricht eine Sage über die Ameisen, die ebenfalls auf die -hier allerdings völlig anders intendierte- Neigung des Menschen verweist, sich entsprechenden Gegebenheiten ganz und gar hin- und dabei aufzugeben. Als nach den Musenkindern die Arbeit in die Welt kam, wurden manche Menschen
von so großer Arbeitslust gepackt und berauscht, dass sie vergaßen, sich zu ernähren, und schließlich völlig ausgezehrt starben. Aus diesen griechischen »ergobakcheuontes«,
in unserer Zeit »workaholic« genannten Menschen ging das Geschlecht der Ameisen hervor, das die Musen damit beschenkten, ohne den Genuss jeglicher Künste unaufhörlich arbeiten zu können. Die beschriebenen, wahrheitsweisenden Mythen erlauben eine Zuordnung menschlicher Gruppierungen: In dem weiten Spektrum zwischen zikadenseligen Grillen, den »Musaholics«, die »Grillen im Kopf« haben, und den amusischen (griech. amusoi), ameisenfleißigen »Worcaholics« finden sich die Menschen, die weder Zikaden noch Ameisen geworden sind.
Geschichte: In alten Kräuterbüchern, besonders der Alpenregion, finden wir Hinweise darauf, dass Bergsteiger bei großer Anstrengung, die gelegentlich zu Atemnot mit verschlossener Nase führt, mit der Hand auf Ameisenhaufen klopfen, um dann die von den Ameisen ausgespritzte Ameisensäure einzuatmen. Innerhalb von Sekunden kommt es zu völlig freier Nasenatmung, so dass die Bergtour fortgesetzt werden kann. Während meiner Gefangenschaft habe ich erlebt, dass sich russische Soldaten bei hartnäckigem Ischias und akuter Lumgabo nackt in einen Ameisenhaufen setzten, eine Zeitlang laut jammerten, dann aufsprangen, sich weiterhin wegen des Brennens beklagten, nach ein
bis zwei Stunden jedoch wieder völlig beschwerdefrei waren. Die gewöhnliche Waldameise, Formica rufa, ist für den Menschen ein harmloses Insekt. Sie sticht nicht, ihr Stechapparat ist vielmehr ein Rudiment; anders aggressive Arten der Ameisen machen indes noch Gebrauch von ihrem kräftigen Stachel. Unsere Formica rufa beißt, kann
aber nur zarte Oberflächenschichten durchdringen und nur sehr kleine Wunden verursachen. In diese spritzt das Insekt den sauren Inhalt eines Säckchens, in das tubuläre Giftdrüsen einmünden. Wie bei den Bienen und Wespen verfügen auch bei den Ameisen nur die Königinnen und die Arbeiter über einen Giftapparat. Das Gift der Formica rufa besteht hauptsächlich aus Ameisensäure. Säuregehalt liegt zwischen 21% und 71%, je nachdem, wo die Ameisen leben. Die Ameisensäure als reine Säure kann bis zu
18% des gesamten Köpergewichts betragen.
[Heike Buchter, New York]
17 Jahre lang saugten sie tief in der Erde an Wurzeln. In den kommenden Nächten, wenn die Bodentemperatur über 18 Grad Celsius erreicht, werden Milliarden von ihnen
den Larvenhüllen entschlüpfen und an die Oberfläche kommen. Dann erklettern die rotäugigen Insekten die nächstgelegenen Bäume – die größte und ohrenbetäubendste Singleparty der Welt beginnt.
Brut X ist wieder da! So haben Forscher den Zikadenstamm genannt, der in diesem Zeitabstand immer wiederkehrt. X steht für die römische Zehn, es gibt insgesamt 15 solcher periodisch wiederkehrender Zikadenstämme in den USA.
Die Tiere sind harmlos, wenn auch sehr laut: Mehr als 100 Dezibel können die Männchen mit ihrem Gesang erreichen. Hartnäckig hält sich das Gerücht, Weibchen würden zuweilen durch das Geräusch eines Rasenmähers angelockt, den sie mit einem potenziellen Partner verwechselten. Der Chiphersteller Nvidia hat für Bewohner der besonders betroffenen Bundesstaaten eine spezielle Anwendung programmiert, mit der sich die Kakofonie herausfiltern lässt, damit Zoom-Meetings im Homeoffice trotzdem stattfinden können.
[JIuan Heng]
Jumping to a Symphony of Insects: A Case of Cricket
March 15, 2016
Homeopath Jiuan Heng presents a case that required potentized cricket.
A woman readily reveals her remedy’s source, but how do we make sense of
it?
This case was taken over two days. Susan Sonz wanted to demonstrate to
the clinic class how she takes a case in the style of Divya Chhabra, who had
just given a seminar the weekend before.
Gwen’s first consultation took place in March 2012, with three
follow-ups in clinic between 2012 and 2015, and regular telephone follow-ups.
Gwen is a 33-year-old woman who has severe mood swings that can last up to ten
days before she gets her period. She has “a heightened level of anxiety” before
her period. But, she quickly assures us,
“I don’t want to say anxiety. I’m not anxious – and sometimes I really
don’t want to talk to humans today. I don’t tear their heads off. I’m jumping
down people’s throats.” During these times, “I want to scream to release
something… I’m not a puncher of pillows. Occasionally, I would yell in my car.
I don’t scream that much. My chest will
get tight. I can’t breathe as well. I’m asthmatic. I want to boil over.
…I start not panicking. So I don’t give myself an asthma attack.”
As soon as she starts to describe her chief complaints, she begins to
deny how she feels. She speaks in negatives, which tells us that her state is
very intense. Not being able to breathe puts her “stomach in a knot” and her
chest becomes “tight,” as if there is “a vice around my lungs, like there are
fists grabbing my lungs. [hand gesture of grasping and jerking in front of her
chest]…Like a water balloon chopped in half. There’s all this tension – I get
massages.”
At this point, she offers, without prompting, a most peculiar stream of
consciousness:
“The toxin release during a massage is very important for me. Toxins are
like skulls with crossbones living in my white blood cells. Once they are
released, they start floating around and they have to get pushed out to get out
of me. If you push water into your system, it’s like a lasso.”
She is on a roll:
“The toxin’s too entangled, too intertwined in my system. The toxins are
tied up in a rubber band ball or something. Something has to release it or free
it. Tangled is better
than restrained. If you’re restrained you can’t move. You can’t talk.
Like my sleep paralysis! I remember waking up and gasping for air.
No way to move, scream or communicate. In my head, I’m saying, ‘Get up!’
and I can’t. I thought I was paralyzed. I think of myself as restrained, tied
down in my bed,
with a rope going all around me, over me….no, I never envisioned a rope.
Total loss of control of limbs.”
This is a very intense (delusional) experience that she offers us
spontaneously in response to a question about her PMS. She is asked to talk
about being “restrained.”
“Restrained is tied up mouth, tied up limbs. The dire need to bust out
of this restraint. I can’t imagine being restrained. I would just implode. I
think if you can’t bust out
of something you’re confined in it and you’re stuck. My mind would be
racing and I’d keel over and die. Off switch.”
As she describes the restraint on her body that she experiences during
sleep paralysis, Gwen is reminded of her stepmother, who has MS, but was once
strong.
Strong is “not weak. If you’re weak, all your strength is gone, like the
floor has dropped out. Shaky, it tips, wavering and wobbly. Wobbly is fluid,
loose, not steady.
Like walking on a waterbed. Wobbly. Tipping back and forth [hand
gesture] constantly. Like a trampoline, you’re always trying to keep your
balance. Fun, carefree.”
It is very unusual to liken “weak” to being on a trampoline. What is the
feeling of a trampoline?
“Wow, you’re up in the air! You’re so high up in the air, not thinking.
Now we’re going to flip! Floating in the air, doing flips. Same way that you
enjoyed roller coasters,
the same rush, stomach moving, that Hooooh, that surge that goes over
you. That Hooh! [hand gesture of ascending] Then you come down then you go back
up – big rush – then you go down and go back up. That’s why you keep jumping.
When you first go on the roller coaster, you have that scared feeling – ‘what
if I die?’ – and as you’re halfway down, you get that feeling, YES! I don’t
ever think of dying.”
When she denies (and implicitly affirms) a fear of dying, she is ready
to talk about fears in general. What are they?
“Oh, I’m totally afraid of spiders! If I see a spider it’s like an
asthma attack. [Big gasp] I was driving my car and all of a sudden, a spider
comes down from a thread and
I huuuuh….almost about to touch my face. It just gave me this huge surge
of whatever…. Spider is associated with poison. They are THE Killer insect.
[giggles]
People have died from spider bites. It’s commonly known. The brown
recluse spider can kill kids. [Giggles a lot.]”
This is the delusional talk of a spider’s prey. She confirms it when she
describes her overreaction to the feeling of a hair, which she mistakes for a
spider:
“The feeling of a spider on you is creepy, crawly. Like if you took a
hair and you feel it, and you think, ‘OMG it’s a spider!’ and then ‘OMG, it’s
just a hair, stop being ridiculous!’ [Giggles.] Ticklish. I’d punch someone who
tickles me.”
It is a rather extreme response to tickling, and we want to understand
it:
“I don’t breathe when I am tickled. That’s why I am so mad when I am tickled.
Same thing with the lungs – just don’t breathe. When you take the air out of
the water
balloon -the constriction [hands clench]- you’re frozen. That’s it!
That’s the fucking restraint. You can’t move. You have to bust out of it.”
Here, she suddenly recognizes something significant – the same
experience connects the fear of spiders, being tickled, how asthma feels, how
her PMS feels.
This is a breakthrough in the interview. It is important not to ask her
to make explicit the connection, but rather, explore something that lies
outside of conscious cognition
-dreams- so that we can corroborate the connection. Dreams, for the
homeopath as they are for the psycho-analyst, are a goldmine as they sidestep
our deliberate compensation for our fears. They are a window into the source
that the client resonates with.
Gwen’s dreams include flying. She would “jump from one place to another,
jump really high to go where you want to go. Jumping and landing super fast.
Jumping up at lightning speed [is] like flying – and when you jump down, it’s
just like the roller coaster feeling. Like I have springs in my shoes.
Springs – I don’t think of springs as connected to things. It just drops
and it bounces. Like bouncing on a trampoline. The rush of feeling when you’re up
and down is euphoric! But now I don’t want to be on a trampoline. I feel the
recoil when I go down. The extra 15 pounds is like jello under your skin. Your
body feels like everything’s coming down.”
While euphoria and recoil may seem like totally opposite responses, they
both relate to the core experience of jumping and landing very fast that she
has already mentioned
in relation to riding on the roller coaster and bouncing on the
trampoline. However, we do not seem to have enough material to connect all the
experiences, the fears and the delusions that she has revealed. She comes back
for a second interview the very next day. We start by asking for her an
episodic memory of her childhood. A child has relatively few filters. We try to
get her to return to a specific time and place to describe what she experiences
with her five senses.
“Lots of my childhood memories have to do with smells. The smell of the
laundry room comes in a wave – smell hits you in the face. [gesture: pushing in
a wave-like motion]
I remember taking naps…planes going by, a drone in the background,
street noise, oh, there’s a cricket!
Soothing noises, airplanes are always passing, not like jet noise, not
like swooshing, not a drone. The repetition is just soothing…A bug will make
the same sound over and
over again. Insects have their calls. They do it on a cycle. Mating
call, regular cricket noise, whatever noise they make over and over. It all
becomes one symphony of insects. When you go camping and you are going to
sleep, you hear cricket noises, locust sounds, clicking cicada that gets really
high then really soft…da da…da da…da da.
Mating and dying and then digging down into the ground for another 17
years. Bugs mating all day long. Cicadas have red eyes; flies have multiple
eyes. Like a flying grasshopper. They all look like flies to me.”
Smell is the most primal of the human senses. It is the only sense that
connects to the limbic system. When she recalls the smell of the laundry room
she is transported to an experience that is at once authentic and primal. It
unlocks very vivid memories. She hears sounds. The drone of the planes is to be
expected in an urban setting, but the sound of the cricket is an unexpected
intrusion into this urban soundscape. “Oh! There’s a cricket!” is a JUMP, in
Divya Chhabra’s terminology, a break from the rational talk.
It is not appropriate to the context. It gets us closer to her source.
It leads her to a heightened experience of the insect world, where “it all
becomes one symphony of insects.” We can be quite sure that she is very in tune
with her remedy’s source.
Now, without being asked, she becomes conscious of the predators of her
remedy’s source:
“Bats are all over the country. If you see something flying at night,
it’s a bat! The whole country is highlighted. Camping, I heard the grass move.
It was the quietest place I’ve ever been. I heard shooow… a huge frigging
rabbit. I heard the big black wing flap far away. Then there was a spider on
our saucepan on the camp table, the size of a quarter. A crazy bug, humongous,
it looked like a mutant bug.”
She is truly in her source now. It is time to drill down into the
specific sensations that she related the previous day.
Restrained?
“Being tied up. Arms tied up behind my back.”
Release?
“It’s busting out of the rope. Carefree and relaxed.”
Tight?
“A hand grasp, felt in my gut.”
Squeeze?
“Ha! Like someone is taking the life out of you. I don’t think squeeze
could be good. Squeeze the hell out of someone. The air is pulverized. It is
destroyed. Squeeze till it’s broken.”
Pulverized?
“Disintegrated, disappearing, broken down to molecular structure and its
gone. It’s gone, disappeared.”
Disappear?
“A trap door opening – a person gets sucked into it. It looked like it
opened up and looks like a door with an invisible line.
Someone was pulled into the trap door.”
Jumping?
“Me jumping. Wow, I jumped really far. I was coming out of nowhere from
up above.”
Wobbly?
“Off balance, more fluid, like walking on a waterbed. Or a gel, liquid or
jelly. Like one of those big bouncing houses.”
Surge?
“I thought of a thermometer when it boils up – in cartoons they show
anger that way – and then when it calms down it goes way down. I used to be
such a hothead. Your blood is boiling over till you yell or punch. I used to
throw stuff.”
Tense?
“Interconnected muscles, knotted, tense, tangled.”
Tangled?
“Messy, intertwined, you move one thing and it undoes something else.
Not a tangled knot, it’s still one thing if it’s tangled. A knotted ball, no
end to it, a circular piece of rope that has no end.”
Loose?
“A rope that comes untied like a navy rope, not super thick. You loosen
the rope to get out of something. It loosens up the rope and you are free and
gone.”
Analysis
By the end of the second interview, we felt confident that Gwen needed a
remedy that belonged to the insect sub-kingdom. She has a huge fear of sudden
death that would come to her in a flash while she is in the middle of an
activity – riding in a roller coaster, or driving. She spoke in a rapid-fire
fashion. These are all traits of insects.
Moreover, she spoke repeatedly of the joy of jumping and landing very
fast, of trampolines and roller coasters. We felt her remedy was a jumping
insect – a prey of bats and spiders.
But which prey? She mentions crickets, locusts – both jumping insects.
She is fiercely aggressive – and both these insects can be aggressive, though
in different ways. Crickets are naturally aggressive, so much so that there is
a tradition of holding cricket championships in China. The locust, normally
peaceful, only turns aggressive when overcrowded and then it swarms. She
mentions nothing in this regard. Both crickets and cicadas make rhythmic
noises. But the cicada is not aggressive.
We decide to give her Cricket – Gryllus campestris 1M, a rather high
potency to match the intensity of her state and the frequency of spontaneous
denial, as she mentioned
the cricket in an offhand, unexpected jump. It makes rhythmic sounds,
and is very aggressive. Its predators include bats and spiders.
To be taken as needed.
Results
Gwen had a herpes breakout – a return of an old symptom – almost
immediately after taking the remedy. It was milder than her usual breakouts.
The weekend after taking her remedy, she could vomit after over-drinking,
something she had been unable to do for years.
Gradually, her PMS improved to the point where she would be taken by
surprise by the onset of her menstruation. She gained greater clarity. She
could concentrate better, and could stop make decisions easier, instead of
“over thinking into a frenzy.” Her seasonal allergies improved to the extent
that she only needed medication once where she had previously taken it for a
whole season in the fall. She has not felt that she needed her asthma inhaler
for months at a time.
A year later, the remedy seems to have worn off. She needed her remedy
more frequently, and eventually the remedy did not seem to help with her mood
swings, even after the onset of flow. She was also more confused and could not
regain equilibrium.
We try a 10M. Initially she did very well on it, becoming calmer, more
rational, better able to prioritize the demands on her. However, within 5
weeks, she had become very aggressive and emotional. She would cry several
times a day and was unable to speak to people for a week before her period.
We felt that she would be better off on 1M. There is some amelioration,
but it wasn’t consistent. In July 2013, I suggested that she should take the
remedy mid cycle, every month.
By September 2013, it was clear that mid cycle dosing has affected her
dramatically. For the first time since April 2012, Gwen had “nothing eventful”
to report.
She consistently reported being “great” despite having to cope with
challenging family circumstances.
It has been almost 4 years since Gwen first started on her remedy. She
has really turned her life around. She has become a very supportive, present
mother who stands by her daughter through crises. She has saved enough money
working two jobs to take her daughter on a vacation to Europe, and has reduced
her debt dramatically. She is at peace with her family and is focusing on the
things that really matter to her. She is in a committed relationship that is
truly reciprocal. When she forgets to take her remedy during the mid-cycle mark,
she notices a difference in her mood. Then, she realizes how she can help
herself – it is no longer the systemic problem that it once was.
Allerlei: Zikade = Sinnbild für die menschliche Seele (Entwicklung)/Unsterblichkeit/Wiedergeburt/langes Leben/Erotik/Täuschung/Ägypten: aus Jade geschnitzten Figuren wurden auf Zunge von Verstorbenen gelegt/machen Laute/Eos (= Göttin der Morgenröte) verwandelt Thitonus in eine Zikade und besorgt ihm Unsterblichkeit, aber nicht
die ewige Jugend/so altert die Zikade sehr schnell.
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum